Elsewhere at Harvard

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Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall 110, Harvard Yard

"Claim No Easy Victories: Can the Social Sciences Serve the Equity Interest of the Poor?"

This talk argues that much of the academic discourse on inequality, educational and otherwise, has been hijacked, if you will, by two elite discourses, both self-congratulatory, both framing inequality in ways that don’t give us as much real-world leverage as we might have. On the one hand, scholars may be so afraid of “blaming the victim” they may be unable to consider a full-range of the possible levers to change, often working to the detriment of the most disadvantaged...

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Adolphus Busch Hall, Hoffmann Room

In this presentation Dr. Dekel-Chen will discuss some of the issues arising from the planning and execution of the museum, the challenges of synthesizing this volatile history for a Russian-speaking audience, relations with the owners of the museum and the implications of creating this space in Putin’s Russia, including the recent international conflict surrounding the fate of the so-called “Schneersohn” library. Dr. Jonathan Dekel-Chen served from 2008-2012 as one of five members on the international academic consultant committee that created the content of the museum....

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Adolphus Busch Hall, Hoffmann Room

*Please note: There is no presentation and the paper should be read in advance. It is posted at least a week ahead of each seminar via links in the section for the Seminar and in the CES Events Calendar at www.ces.fas.harvard.edu

Dawne Teele Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania

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Adolphus Busch Hall, Hoffmann Room

Renato Camurri presents Gaetano Salvemini: Lettere Americane, 1927-1949, a collection of previously unpublished letters written by the Italian antifascist historian and political activist Gaetano Salvemini during his years of exile in the United States.

Renato CamurriAssociate Professor of Late Modern and Contemporary History, University of Verona

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High status burials featuring females embodying the identity of priestesses in the Pre-Columbian Moche liturgy have been found consistently in the north coast of Peru, dating as early as 600 A.D. By Lambayeque times (A.D. 950) elite females seem to have been elevated to the status of Queens, and buried alongside male rulers. Female power was probably extended to the community level, and by the XVI century, when the Spanish Conquistadores took control of this...

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"Domesticating Detroit: An Ethnography of Creativity in a Postindustrial Frontier" Presented by Julia Yezbick

Monday, April 11, 2016 3:30 p.m. in Tozzer 203

Film screening of How to Rust Followed by oral defense

“Domesticating Detroit” is an ethnographic investigation into the intersecting worlds of artistic practice, creativity, real estate, philanthropy, and urban revitalization through the material lens of the single-family home. Throughout Detroit's...

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Politics requires more than voting and electoral mobilization. It requires knowledge of law, organization, identity, history, and culture. This reality is very much evident in Native American life today, where Native communities are sovereign nations within the United States yet must still negotiate politically within a federal democratic system that, at times, inconsistently honors their rights, their land and water, and their ways of life.

This one-day symposium will explore a range of mechanisms for political expression with leading members of Native communities,...

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“Ah humanity!” is a large-scale audio-video installation on view from April 10 (Sunday) – April 16 (Saturday) from 8:00-10:30 p.m. Sponsored by the Harvard University Committee on the Arts the installation will feature a single channel of video...

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Emerson Hall 210, Harvard Yard

John Sopko (Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction)

“The Perilous State of Afghan Reconstruction”

Presented by the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, with generous support from the Institute for Global Law and Policy (Law School), the Center for International Development (Kennedy School), and the Center for Mideast Studies (Faculty of Arts and Sciences).

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The Boston Athletic Association has partnered with Harvard University in the upcoming Native American Running: Culture, Health, Sport event just before the Boston Marathon. The multi-day event kicks off with a Friday, April 15 afternoon conference at Harvard's Science Center on the same theme,...